A Wangaratta man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for running an extensive and "sinister" ice trafficking syndicate in north-eastern Victoria.

The court heard the network, controlled by Aaron Dalton, 32, of Wangaratta, was sophisticated and sinister.

The network was also tightly controlled, with members organising hotel rooms and cars to trade the drugs ice, or crystal methamphetamine, and ecstasy.

The Victorian County Court was told the syndicate operated in Wodonga, Yarrawonga, Myrtleford, Shepparton, Wangaratta and parts of New South Wales.

The network's codes were imposed with violence: In one instance, members threw a Molotov cocktail at the Yarrawonga home of a mother with young children who had warned the community about the syndicate.

Bashing a 'chilling' insight into drug ring

Dalton was also charged with recklessly causing serious injury and false imprisonment after he ordered the bashing of a man who shared a house with the cousin of a drug associate who had left the ring.

The man suffered a broken nose and fractured skull in the attack.

Judge Michael Bourke said all of these things were done at Dalton's direction.